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Figure 13. Kensakia australis sp. nov. Female: (A) adult; (C) PI; (D) caudal ramus. Male: (B) adult; (E) antennule (ventral, showing 
“tunnel”); (F) antennule; (G) antennule segment 6; (H) cephalosome border showing vacuolated cells; (I) antennule brush pad (dorsal, 
ventral); (J) underside of cephalosome showing ventrolateral band. Scale bar: A, B = 0.48 mm. C = 0.12 mm. D, F, I = 0.11 mm. E, G = 
0.05 mm. H, J = 0. 1 0 mm. 
Remarks. Kensakia australis closely resembles Japanese 
specimens of K. acuta but is significantly smaller, differs 
slightly in colour pattern, shape of female rostrum and in 
the number of eggs carried in each brood. 
Distribution. Kensakia australis is common at low water 
spring tides at Hervey Bay, Queensland on Zonaria sp. Type 
series (PV3, 7/97, 76 ^ + 65 SS) and Eucheuma sp., 
(PV6, 60 + 23 $g + juveniles), V. A. Harris 1997. It 
has also been recorded from Dilophus sp., and Lobophora 
sp., in rock pools at Arrawarra, NSW (30°03'S 153°02’E), 
V. A. Harris, 1982. 
